Improved furniture-protector



il 5mm Mw-essaaew 5 een lGEORGE F. BOYDEN, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Letters Patent No. 85,361, dated December 29, 1868.

mpRom-:n FURNITURE-PROTECTOR.

,The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it ma/y conca/rn Beit known that I, GEORGE F. BOYDEN, of the city Vand county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island,

have invented'a new and improved Adjustable Furniture-Protector; and I do hereby declare that the following is a fullA clear, and exact description thereof, which will'enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication.

Figure l represents an ottoman, having my invention applied to it.

Figure 2 represents an inverted perspective view of my invention.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional elevation oi' an ottoman, having my invention applied to it.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to protect the walls of z partinents of buildings, as well as the furniture, from becoming injured or defaced by the latter being brought in contact with. the former; and v lhe invention consists in providing each article of furniture with one or more pads, eaclrattached to a ratchetptoothed bar, which is made adjustable in clips on the under side ofthe seat ofthe article of furniture, as will be hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, .A represents the ratchet-toothed bar, which is provided at its outer end with the cushion B.

' This bar is supported and is adapted to slide through clasps C and C, which may be secured to the seat of the article of furniture by screws, or nails, or in any other suitable manner.

ratchet-teeth ofthe bar A, and thus secures the latter in any required position.

A spring, D, is interposed between the ratchet toothed bar and the seat, to. which latter it is fast-- ened at one end, and serves to hold the bar down firmly against the tooth in the-clasp O', as shown in fig. 3, thus preventing the bar from spontaneous movement.

The inner end of the ratchet-toothed bar A iscurved downward slightly, forming a handle for the hand of the operator to raise it above the 'tooth in the clasp O', when it is desired to draw the said bar inward after it has once been pulled out.

` By this arrangement, the ratchet-toothedbar A, and theretbre the protector, B, can be easily adjusted so asto place the furniture atany desirable distance from the wall; and consequently prevent the latter from loe coming defaced. v

' Having thus described my invention,

\Vhat l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An adjustable furnitureprotector, consisting of the ratchet-toothed bar A, cushion B, clasps C and C', and spring D, all operating substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose specified.

GEO. F. BOYDEN.

lYVitnesses OHRLES L. SPENCER, Gnus. MATrEsoN. 

